I think it goes beyond class. Catholic reactionaries have a serious intellectual pedigree in continental thought & in philosophy/law/aesthetics/social theory have produced thinkers of the highest calibre. Where is the evangelical Heidegger or Marshall McLuhan?
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Bingo. Historically in US, demotic evangelical churches and sects, in a race to the bottom to attract congregants, developed no intellectual centers of learning or high cultural theorists and exponents. High reactionary Catholicism just pulls the evangelicals along.
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Yep. There's a reason why all the Republican Supreme Court justices are Catholics.
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That's a little excessively dismissive. Work almost always survives because it has value. I do agree though that a razor blade of skepticism should always be employed when determining what gets taught or promoted.
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That’s why the Supreme Court is cluttered with Catholics, as opposed to evangelicals. “Respected evangelical scholar” isn’t a thing.
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In heaven, Karl Barth, Dietrich Boehoeffer, and Reinhold Niebuhr are clenching their jaws. :-) You're right, Jeet. But the failure of 'demotic evangelicalism' to anchor a broader intellectual movement wasn't due to a lack of brilliant, morally impressive people.
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